hello and welcome to bbc world news
myanmar's
ousted leader aung sang tsuchi has
appeared at a court hearing
the first time her lawyers have seen her
since she was detained
in last month's coup miss suchi who
hasn't been seen in public since the
military takeover
is reported to be in good health her
supporters have again marched in several
towns and cities in defiance of a
crackdown
this is what has been happening in the
main city of yangon
on monday police used stun grenades and
tear gas
to disperse hundreds of protesters it
follows the violence on sunday when
police fired on crowds in several places
killing at least 18 people
myanmar has been in chaos since the
military seized power after alleging
fraud in
november's election well as we said aung
suchi has appeared in court on monday
her lawyer has told the bbc that he
wasn't even allowed to look at his
client who was on a video link
we cannot have any access to the code to
to look at the screen
on the side of the code to look at her
face
because i think he feels because the
jazz said we are not
permitted because we didn't have
to that time that bar of attorney from
her
that's uh lawyer there well earlier i
spoke to hannah a protester from yangon
who told me what the situation is like
on the streets
i've been on the street since uh the
first uh
this the whole thing starts and um i've
been
i've been on the streets like uh uh
before the previous days to like
protest and to donate foods and
yesterday i was
in san juan which was um uh
was targeted yesterday yeah i was at san
juan yesterday
you say that you've been on the streets
for some time now
um just tell us how the mood has shifted
and changed in these last few
uh days and and this past week
okay um at first like until like a few
weeks ago
uh people are like protestant protesting
peacefully
every day on the roads and until uh
last week i as far as i remember they
started like uh
breaking the crowds with tear gas uh
sound bombs and smoke bonds and
everything
yeah it has really changed a lot it has
they have really
been violent since then yeah
and i can we're showing uh our viewers
some pictures uh from yesterday's
uh protests uh and and and how there has
been more police and military presence
on the streets
are you scared to go out
of course i am i am i am only i'm really
um i'm a girl also and
it's called so many people on the street
are also like uh very young like some
are really
some uh some of them are like 17 18 even
the people who
go out to protest with me yeah i am
scared but
we still have to fight for the democracy
that we want
which is the question i was going to get
get to uh given it's getting so
dangerous why do you keep going out onto
the streets
we me and my fellow protesters will
fight until we get our leaders back
and the democracy we want um so
we will still go out until we want um
the because the government right now is
not
legitimate for all the myanmar citizens
this is not acceptable
so we we have to go out on the road
despite the covet
and everything for the freedom
yeah kristy you're an architect uh
are there many of your colleagues who
who are also
protesting just tell us about the makeup
of those out in the streets
yes um there are uh arcade association
uh an official association um
and they have made an official statement
that they will stand with all the people
all the civilians and all the all the um
people who are doing civil disobedience
movement right now
uh and yesterday they there was a strike
there was an engineer and
architects combined together there was a
strike
uh that was hannah one of the protesters
i spoke to a little earlier we also
spoke to tim tarsui
a myanmar analyst and former bbc burmese
service editor she told me
why so many are continuing to defy the
military government
they have seen what it was like living
under the military rule
their parents had lived through that
period their grandparents had lived
through that period
and they themselves suffer a great deal
in like education for example they had
to catch up
after the country open up in 2010
in fact effectively in 2015 when the
civilian government came into power
so they know that if they give in this
time
they're going to spend their life like
how the
their parents had spent their life under
so many restrictions
the military has been warning for some
weeks now that they
would uh crack down on demonstrators if
they didn't
get off the streets we really are now
seeing
a difference in tactic far more violent
there it's likely that they'll be more
violent and
the the more violence in the street the
milk free will
will not back away from it we have seen
it over and over
and the military will make sure that the
the
the public is frightened and would not
come out
into the street again but as you heard
from the
protester just now they are defiant they
are going to they're not going to give
in
easily so what's going to happen now so
the
the the people are waiting for the
international
international community to impose more
pressure on the military
and international community is taking
punitive measures
sanctions but they want more than that
they want u.n security council to come
in
they want u.n security council to impose
a coordinated global arms
embargo on myanmar they want these u.n
member states to
do this and u.n security council can do
it
another thing they would like is to
bring the military
to the international criminal court
and that they have collecting enough
evidence
and they're hoping that they could
convince the united nations security
council
to refer myanmar case to the
international criminal court